# US 8,751,474 B2 · Card customization by tailored intergenerational historic snapshots > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 8,751,474 B2 - Document ID: US8751474B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 13/679,952 - Filed: 2012-11-16 - Published: 2013-03-28 - Granted: 2014-06-10 - Earliest claimed: 2007-12-08 - Assignees: John Ogilvie - Applicants: John W. Ogilvie; Kristy Lyn Ogilvie - Inventors: John W. Ogilvie; Kristy Lyn Ogilvie - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US8751474B2 ## CPC - G06F 40/174: Form filling; Merging - G06F 7/00: Methods or arrangements for processing data by operating upon the order or content of the data handled (logic circuits H03K19/00) - G06F 40/10: Text processing (natural language analysis G06F40/20; semantic analysis G06F40/30; processing or translation of natural language G06F40/40) - G06F 40/20: Natural language analysis (semantic analysis of natural language G06F40/30) - B33Y 80/00: Products made by additive manufacturing - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) - B33Y: ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, i.e. MANUFACTURING OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL [3D] OBJECTS BY ADDITIVE DEPOSITION, ADDITIVE AGGLOMERATION OR ADDITIVE LAYERING, e.g. BY 3D PRINTING, STEREOLITHOGRAPHY OR SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING ## Abstract A user-customized card includes a tailored intergenerational historic snapshot message which informs a younger person about the world an older person lived in when they were young. The older person's age and the younger person's age may be used to identify a historic time period in which the older person was the same age as the younger person. A circumstance which occurred in the historic time period may be selected from a database or web search result. The message may be tailored to the ages of the people involved. The message may also be tailored to recite circumstances specific to a topic area or a geographic location. The message may be used in the text generally, and in photo captions specifically, for example. The card may be a greeting card, birthday card, gift card, or other card. Items other than cards may also be customized with such a message. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A method of producing a customized card containing a tailored intergenerational historic snapshot message, the method comprising the steps of: obtaining digital values for parameters of a tailored historic snapshot message template data structure stored in a computer-readable memory, the template data structure having predefined text and parameters, the text being interleaved with the parameters to form sentences, the predefined text and parameters of the template data structure including at least one of the following pairs within a sentence: “from where you are” and a distance parameter, “was your age” and a familial relationship parameter, “when she/he turned” and a person's age parameter, “like to know” and a person's name parameter, “in the year” and a date parameter based on an elder person's birthdate and a younger person's age, “people in it” and a historic date population parameter, “population of” and a historic date population parameter, “just . . . invented” and a historic event parameter with the ellipsis representing text rather than being literal, “first successful” and a historic event parameter, “world . . . changed” and a person's age parameter, with the ellipsis representing text rather than being literal; generating by execution of code with a computer processor a tailored historic snapshot message from the parameters and the template data structure; and including a version of the tailored historic snapshot message in an electronic version of the customized card, the customized card containing text tailored for at least one of the following subjects: an anniversary, a birthday, a congratulation, a gift, a graduation, a seasonal greeting, a holiday, an expression of sympathy. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The card production method of claim 1, wherein the including step comprises splitting the message across multiple pages of the card. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The card production method of claim 1, wherein the card includes visual images, and the including step comprises splitting the message across multiple visual images of the card, by using at least a respective portion of the message as at least one of the following for each respective visual image: a caption, a heading, a watermark, a displayed label, a text displayed on at least two sides of the visual image. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The card production method of claim 1, wherein the including step comprises using at least a portion of the message as a visual image caption in the card. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The card production method of claim 1, wherein the including step comprises using at least a portion of the message as an opening line of the card. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The card production method of claim 1, wherein the including step comprises including at least a portion of the message on a back page of the card. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The card production method of claim 1, wherein the including step comprises including at least a portion of the message in a customized gift card. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The card production method of claim 1, wherein the including step comprises including in the card a photo of at least one of the following: the elder person, the younger person, the historic event. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The card production method of claim 1, wherein the including step comprises including in the card a user-edited version of the message. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The card production method of claim 1, wherein the including step comprises including in the card a photo and/or a name of a person whose age parameter is obtained in the obtaining step. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The card production method of claim 1, further comprising sending the electronic version of the card to a printing service with an instruction to print at least one tangible copy of the card. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) The card production method of claim 1, further comprising selecting a layout template of the card which specifies at least one location in which text is permitted, and wherein the message text appears in at least one location permitted by the layout template. ### Claim 13 (depends on 1) The card production method of claim 1, wherein the receiving step receives through a web browser-based user interface a user selection of digital values for parameters of the tailored historic snapshot message template data structure. ### Claim 14 (depends on 1) The card production method of claim 1, wherein the receiving step receives through an app-based user interface a user selection of digital values for parameters of the tailored historic snapshot message template data structure. ### Claim 15 (depends on 1) The card production method of claim 1, further comprising placing the message on at least one non-card item. ### Claim 16 (depends on 1) The card production method of claim 1, wherein the including step includes at least a portion of the message in at least one of the following cards which are also designed to be received by multiple recipients: a seasonal greeting card, a congratulatory card. ### Claim 17 (depends on 1) The card production method of claim 1, wherein the card includes text referring to at least one of the following circumstances: a wedding, a moment in the life of a baby (namely, a person less than one year old), a moment in the life of a young child (one less than eleven years old), a family vacation, a travel adventure. ### Claim 18 (depends on 1) The card production method of claim 1, further comprising printing the tailored historic snapshot message on the card using at least one of the following technologies: lithography, embossing, engraving, laser printing, ink jet printing, 3D printing, silk screening. ### Claim 19 (depends on 1) The card production method of claim 1, wherein the message included in the card comprises “was your age” and a familial relationship parameter. ### Claim 20 (depends on 1) The card production method of claim 1, wherein the message included in the card comprises “in the year” and a date parameter based on an elder person's birthdate and a younger person's age.